Members Super_Donut_Man Posted July 8, 2009 Members Share Posted July 8, 2009 The wonderful free music site that has passed the time at work for me is now limiting the amount you can listen to in a month (unless you want to pay). Figured it would happen though... ...While we did the best we could to lower the rates, we are going to have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the web. Because we have to pay royalty fees per song and per listener, it makes very heavy listeners hard to support on advertising alone. Most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might. We hate the idea of capping anyone's usage, so we've been working to devise an alternative for listeners like you. We've come up with two solutions and we hope that one of them will work for you: Your first option is to continue listening just as you have been and, if and when you reach the 40 hour limit in a given month, to pay just $0.99 for unlimited listening for the rest of that month. This isn't a subscription. You can pay by credit card and your card will be charged for just that one month. You'll be able to keep listening as much as you'd like for the remainder of the month. We hope this is relatively painless and affordable - the same price as a single song download. Your second option is to upgrade to our premium version called Pandora One. Pandora One costs $36 per year. In addition to unlimited monthly listening and no advertising, Pandora One offers very high quality 192 Kbps streams, an elegant desktop application that eliminates the need for a browser, personalized skins for the Pandora player, and a number of other features: http://www.pandora.com/pandora_one. If neither of these options works for you, I hope you'll keep listening to the free version - 40 hours each month will go a long way, especially if you're really careful about hitting pause when you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 82Daion Posted July 8, 2009 Members Share Posted July 8, 2009 Seems reasonable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Super_Donut_Man Posted July 8, 2009 Author Members Share Posted July 8, 2009 Seems reasonable to me. Pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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